An Expansion Of Madness

Recently, Coventry Council announced sites that have been earmarked for 36,000 new thousand homes that will be required to cope with the City's population boom. They include greenbelt land which breaks promises the ruling Labour group made prior to its re-election. 
There are also a number of sites that are currently occupied, not unnaturally and obviously by the occupiers. Without consultation or notice, some businesses have been stunned to find their livelihoods stand to be wiped from under them for new housing.
Not that the Council are big on consultation. Their decision to scrap the City's Olympic swimming pool led to fierce protests and the one of the most signed petitions in the City's history. It fell on unreceptive ears. Just as now with the building of new homes, they are ignoring many frequently asked questions.
These include, where are the jobs coming from for the new influx of people? What infrastructure is in place to provide the basics of healthcare etc? How are the City's overstretched already deteriorating roads going to cope? None have been answered.
Of course, Coventry has a rich history of welcome newcomers. Its a home of diversity, of people who arrive with ambition of self improvement and a better life. But the days of most people having a well paid job are gone. So how are the mortgages and bills going to be paid?  Again, the answer is silence. There seems no other doctrine than we are building these homes because we must.
Coventry is already implementing a series of savage Council job cuts and reductions in services. Here, political table tennis comes into play on, buck passing on a grand scale. The Council are being "forced" into doing things they despise by a Government they can't abide. 
So they just do it, leading to more apathy that there is no real opposition in the mainstream of politics, just meek abidance. You could fill an Olympic swimming pool with crocodile tears, if we weren't scrapping it.
At a time when we are big on human rights, what about the rights of nature? Do we really have the right to play God because we can't or won't limited our own population? So wildlife has to perish for our obsession with our own self growth. This at a time there are grave concerns at the way man's behaviour is threatening many other species. The concern of politicians seems much less obvious when it is planting thousands of new doors on our doorsteps while damaging the environment.
Many of the concerns will simply be ignored or washed away at the hands of political correctness, like asking obvious questions masks a more sinister agenda. New homes will be built whether we like it or not. Despite numerous longstanding empty properties in the existing suburbs. Some will profit of course, estate agents, lawyers, the same old faces. The politics of greed are never far away. 
There seems no point in asking the obvious to the people who run this Country. They always know better. They have no embarrassment or shame as they tamper with heritage or nature. They are providing more means of profit and self protection in the process. Just like our ever expanding Cities, the madness grows unabated.